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Mechanics of sediment transportation and alluvial stream problems, R. J. Garde and K. G. Ranga Raju, Wiley Eastern Ltd., New Delhi, 1977. price £7.25

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1979
Tongue
English
Weight
102 KB
Volume
4
Category
Article
ISSN
0360-1269

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✦ Synopsis


This book covers the broad field of pure and applied aspects of sediment transportation in the turbulent, aqueous, flowing state. The text follows traditional lines with chapters on sediment properties, incipient motion, flow regimes, resistance to flow, bedload transport, suspended load transport, total load transport and a variety of 'applied' problems, including design of stable channels, planform channel variations, river training etc.

The text is generally well-written, covers the field adequately and will clearly find a market in the Indian subcontinent. In the West much of the same ground is


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